QNX becomes free for non-commercial use, releases Raspberry Pi 4 image
A long, long time ago, back when running BeOS as my main operating system had finally become impossible, I had a short stint running QNX as my one and only operating system. In 2004, before I joined...
View ArticleMicrosoft improves its Prism x86-on-ARM emulator
The current version of Windows on ARM contains Prism, Microsoft’s emulator that allows x86-64 code to run on ARM processors. While it was already relatively decent on the recent Snapdragon X platform,...
View ArticleLXQt 2.1.0 released with optional Wayland session
LXQt, the desktop environment that is to KDE what Xfce is to GNOME, has released version 2.1.0, and while the version number change seems average, it’s got a big ace up its sleeve: you can now run...
View ArticleFedora KDE approved to become of equal status to Fedora GNOME
Earlier this year, a proposal was made to replace the primary edition of Fedora from the GNOME variant to the KDE variant. This proposal, while serious, was mostly intended to stir up discussion about...
View ArticleMozilla Foundation lays off 30% of its employees, ends advocacy for open web,...
More bad news from Mozilla. The Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces a “relentless onslaught...
View ArticleValve ends Steam’s support for Windows 7 and 8
Steam has finally stopped working on several older Windows operating systems, following a warning from Valve that it planned to drop support earlier this year. With little fanfare, Windows 7 and...
View ArticleImproving Steam Client stability on Linux: setenv and multithreaded environments
Speaking of Steam, the Linux version of Valve’s gaming platform has just received a pretty substantial set of fixes for crashes, and Timothee “TTimo” Besset, who works for Valve on Linux support, has...
View ArticlequBSD: a Qubes-inspired containerization schema for FreeBSD
quBSD is a FreeBSD jails/bhyve wrapper which implements a Qubes inspired containerization schema. Written in shell, based on zfs, and uses the underlying FreeBSD tools. ↫ quBSD GitHub page quBSD...
View Article.NET 9 released
Today, we are excited to announce the launch of .NET 9, the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet. It’s the result of another year of effort on the part of...
View ArticleGoogle drastically improves quality of the Android Emulator
One of the things I’ve consistently heard from just about anyone involved in Android development are laments about the sorry state of the Android Emulator included in Google’s Android Studio. It seems...
View ArticleStartup’s “AI” tool spams GitHub repositories with bogus commits, without...
Update: that was quick! GitHub banned the “AI” company’s account. Only GitHub gets to spam AI on GitHub, thank you very much. Most of the time, products with “AI” features just elicit sighs,...
View ArticlePureDarwin intends to make Apple’s Darwin usable with a MATE desktop, future...
Remember Darwin? It’s the core of Apple’s macOS, and the company has always – sometimes intermittently – released its source code as open source. Not much ever really happens with Darwin, and any...
View ArticleMassive Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Update is here
Valve has been holding on to a special surprise for Half-Life 2 fans to celebrate the game crossing its 20th birthday. Today, the company shipped the 20th Anniversary Update for the iconic Gordon...
View ArticleMicrosoft finally publishes ISO for Windows on ARM
This option is for users that want to create a Windows 11 on Arm virtual machine on supported hardware using an ISO file or to install Windows 11 on Arm directly without a DVD or USB flash drive. The...
View ArticleFree Towns OS: an open source recreation of FM Towns OS
A few weeks ago I linked to a story by Misty De Meo, in which they explored what happened to the various eccentric Japanese PC platforms. One of the platforms mentioned was FM Towns, made by Fujitsu,...
View ArticleLinux 6.12 released
Version 6.12 of the Linux kernel has been released. The main feature consists of the merger of the real-time PREEMPT_RT scheduler, most likely one of the longest-running merger sagas in Linux’...
View ArticleMigrating Windows VMs from Proxmox BIOS/KVM to FreeBSD UEFI/Bhyve
Another excellent guide from friend of the website Stefano Marinelli. A client of mine has several Windows Server VMs, which I had not migrated to FreeBSD/bhyve until a few weeks ago. These VMs were...
View ArticleiOS 18.1 will reboot iPhones to a locked state after 72 hours of inactivity
In recent weeks, law enforcement in the United States discovered, to their dismay, that iPhones were automatically rebooting themselves after a few days of inactivity, thereby denying them access to...
View ArticleGoogle is reportedly killing Chrome OS in favour of Android
Mishaal Rahman, who has a history of being right about Google and Android-related matters, is reporting that Google is intending to standardise its consumer operating system efforts onto a single...
View ArticleDOJ will push Google to sell Chrome to break search monopoly
Speaking of Google, the United States Department of Justice is pushing for Google to sell off Chrome. Top Justice Department antitrust officials have decided to ask a judge to force Alphabet Inc.’s...
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